Alka Sehgal Cuthbert @ASCphiled Twitter profile

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

2 years

A huge thank you to the men who stepped in to help me stop a mugger getting away with my purse near Westminster station on Thursday. And the kind man who picked up my purse when the thief threw it away. - Just in case any of you find this tweet.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Me and my Brexit Party MEP pals. No racists or fascists here ( @DavidLammy and others take note). We're just very keen on democracy.

Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

5 years

@brexitparty_uk girls who lunch (well drink coffee and natter). Great to meet up with @ASCphiled and Christina Jordan before they head for #PeterboroughByElection campaign trail. I will be there tomorrow.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

About time this pernicious trend that confuses education with indoctrination was made public:

Children aged seven to be taught that they are not ‘racially innocent’

Brighton and Hove City Council accused of ‘indoctrinating’ children through five-year plan for anti-racist education system

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Time for a new party and a more democratic politics.

Reform UK

@reformparty_uk

5 years

BREXIT PARTY CAMPAIGN RALLY - NOTTINGHAM

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

I have never felt more hyper aware of my skin colour since I was 11 & a boy at school called me a P@@@. For the intervening decades, I got on with my life, friends & family (& politics) without thinking about skin colour. Is this meant to be progress? @DontDivideUsNow

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Tired of assumptions that my skin colour & education mean I must be pro- EU. Also fed up with minority rights being used to demonise majorities. And being anti-EU, I AM part of an important majority.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

1 year

I’ve been cancelled for standing up to racial identity politics

An education conference has disinvited me because my presence would make speakers feel ‘unsafe’.

www.spiked-online.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

I wrote this:

How dare you call the Brexit Party racist?

A British-Indian Brexit Party candidate stands up to the political elite’s slanders.

www.spiked-online.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Delighted to be able to offer 46% of East Ham leavers the chance to have their vote unequivocally respected by standing as PC for @brexitparty_uk .

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Former Tendring councillor and charity boss unveiled as Brexit Party candidate

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Just been talking with Labour canvasser in East Ham, he said, quietly, that he'd be voting @brexitparty_uk ! Strange but true.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

India faces prospect of burning bodies on capital'd roadsides; 14year old Fares Maatou is 33rd death in London this year;and Labour &BBC obsess about who paid for decorating a flat?? Is this a sick joke?

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

With no positive case to make for the EU, those who are too scared to leave, scared of majorities & can't admit it, have to resort to insults and slander against those who are more brave & more democratic. I expect to see more smears before 23rd against TBP & its supporters

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

When did it become ethical for schools to make one group of children 'fess up to sins of their 'racist ancestors' & another group 'fess up to viewing every upset through lens of race/victimhood? This is not anti-racism: it's indoctrination & it stinks educationally & ethically.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

2 years

I've been v. impressed by @KemiBadenoch 's fearlessness in openly criticising divisive racial ideology being introduced in schools, commissioning the CRED Report & her honesty about what she can & can't do (with reasons!). Personally, l wish her every luck:

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

@PoliticsForAlI @VICE Words, spoken in private, taken out of context & deliberately framed to trigger outrage, spoken in 2018 - how is this 'breaking news'? More like attempt to smear someone with different political views.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

'The Times saw no evidence of Islamophobic posts by the candidates...' Seriously, it took 3 Times reporters to come up with this piece of non-news??? Looking desperate Times.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

The only skin-matched teacher I ever had was in Maths, a subject in which I failed spectacularly. How I managed to get an A in English, MA in Ed.Research & PhD in Philosophy of Education without a single brown-skinned teacher/lecturer is a mystery!

Wales to offer cash bonuses to recruit more black teachers

The move will be the first time that a UK nation has offered financial incentives to help recruit more minority ethnic teachers

inews.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Great piece by @calvinrobinson : we don't need 'windows on people's souls'!

Good riddance to the bunkum of 'unconscious race-bias' classes

CALVIN ROBINSON: Today's self-styled 'anti-racists' have turned Dr Martin Luther King's ideal on its head, holding that we should all be defined by our ethnicity.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

1 year

Thank you for inviting me @andrewdoyle_com l do hope the 7 anonymous complainers think carefully about what they have done.

Andrew Doyle

@andrewdoyle_com

1 year

Academic and writer Alka Sehgal Cuthbert was no-platformed from an education conference because her views made delegates feel “unsafe”. My interview with @ASCphiled from tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation…

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

1 year

One session is missing -onIndoctrination in Schools. The only person on a panel of three to be disinvited is myself - a woman of colour-seems like my belief in colour-blind meritocratic approaches to race upset a few people who don't have the courage to make their case publicly.

Rethinking Education

@Rethinking_Ed

2 years

🎉 The online Rethinking Education conference is now FREELY AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC! 🎉 90+ videos by mainstream and alternative educators, parents/carers, *actual young people*, homeschoolers, unschoolers... 😍Also, check out our peng new vid 😍 Enjoy:

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

So sick of this nonsense. Black & brown people have aesthetic capabilities too. We can enjoy beautiful places without sermons to 'guide' our interpretations

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

I am really fed up with people like @NeenaGmep using racism as a weapon with which to delegitimise opposing ideas/views. Insulting to the public and encourages conformism - not good for democracy.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

@MartinDaubney @brexitparty_uk @LauraMK20 @MartinDaubney sorry Laura's been called 'fascist' by @NeenaGmep . In London, some jeered as Lance spoke of the swastika graffiti. Wonder if Neena Gill remembers Labour's 'British jobs for British workers'? Stop calling those you don't like fascists, and grow up.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

There is a discussion to be had about relationship between the political, educational & epistemological. But starting with idea that curriculum must directly tackle (one definition of) racism, as some edu-activists do, is fundamentally ideological. Well-said @calvinrobinson

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@ASCphiled

5 years

Since when has waiting for a section of the population to die been in any way progressive? Wish @paulmasonnews could listen to himself. Many young people love older relatives & may even remember they too will be old.If a political idea requires death, it can't be a very good one.

Paul Mason

@paulmasonnews

5 years

Labour leadership: what matters is "who gets the scale of the challenge" - my @NewStatesman column

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Good - look forward to reading the guidance, though sad it should be needed. Rejecting impartiality & embracing activism in classrooms is a breach of public trust in schools and teachers -

Schools must stop teaching activist propaganda, warns Education Secretary

SCHOOLS must root out activist teaching, says the Education Secretary. Rules will be issued this week to stop classes being filled with propaganda. Nadhim Zahawi has acted after some staff were acc…

www.thesun.co.uk

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@ASCphiled

3 years

From the left, white majority are told they should be'uncomfortable'. From the right, they are told they should be 'fearful'. Both utterly useless for even identifying our common problems, let alone solving them. Better political & ethical leadership needed! @DontDivideUsNow

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

1 year

I will be on GBNews tonight at 8.30pm to discuss wider implications of my cancellations. Hope you can tune in.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

2 years

Really enjoyed being invited to @andrewdoyle_com show to talk about black joy, racist toddlers and parents.

Andrew Doyle

@andrewdoyle_com

2 years

Are toddlers racist? On tonight’s episode of Free Speech Nation, I spoke to @ASCphiled from @DontDivideUsNow about new guidance from the BBC that tells parents of toddlers to examine their racial bias if their child only has white friends.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Good to see Minister for Education take a firm and public stand against re-radicalising curricula and its teaching:

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

PROFESSOR GOODWIN: White working class boys are the most deprived via @MailOnline Will never forget white w/c boy tentatively ask me if it was ok to write about grandad who'd been a pilot in the war. Why should he have felt he needed permission? So wrong.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Very sad to see that @DrLeeJones and @PaulEmbery cave in and urge us to vote Labour. Seems like strange form of political masochism from people whose personal anti-Toryism overrides their desire to leave an anti-democratic, supranational institution.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Excellent @calvinrobinson - true liberal tolerance. Real scandal is why unis & other institutions are doing their own reputational damage by hiring such 'race experts' & admitting their own 'systematic racism' (with little support) in the first place:

Even my bigoted critics deserve free speech

An academic has been sacked over tweets calling me a ‘house negro’. This is nothing to celebrate.

www.spiked-online.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Well-said @InayaFolarin - the urge to be part of something bigger is, imo, a positive impulse; but doing it by disregarding specific realities is not. And endorsing a one size fits all victim-identity is definitely not ok.

Talk

@TalkTV

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Writer Inaya Folarin Iman tells Julia that Black Lives Matter protesters are wrong to conflate race relations in the UK with the US: “I don’t want to grow up in a society that is constantly telling me I’m oppressed and a victim. That’s not how I feel.” @JuliaHB1 | @InayaFolarin

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Sometimes, the formal acts of democracy acquire a profound significance - today is one of those moments, please vote, everyone, whatever your choice. Obvs. I say vote for The Brexit Party, but main danger lies in quietude -whether by coercion or demoralisation.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

1 year

. I know Brexit is scary for some, but l don’t bite- promise! And the session was not on Brexit or race directly, but on broader issue of indoctrination/ impartiality in education.

Race row academic barred to ensure ‘psychological safety’ of speakers

An academic who opposes critical race theory has been turned away from an education conference over concerns that she threatens the “psychological safety” of ot

www.thetimes.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

About 39 mins in is where I say why i think we need to leave the EU & why I'm standing for the Brexit Party in forthcoming Eup. elections (assuming they go ahead):

Nigel Farage launches his Brexit Party's European Parliament election...

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www.youtube.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

From the horse's mouth #BrexitParty_UK

James Freeman

@james_freeman__

5 years

The EU is undemocratic! Its answer to rising discontent on further integration, is to transfer more power away from democratic nation states This is no secret, watch EU Chief #Brexit representative Guy Verhofstadt! #Democracy #BrexitBetrayal #LeaveMeansLeave #Brexitparty_uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

When I was growing up, there was talk of how non-white people might have 'an inferiority complex'. Oxford's offer to BAME students of more lenient assessment due to trauma (as currently defined) risks reviving this pernicious idea.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

@DontDivideUsNow Good to see some solidarity:

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Well-said @spikedonline - I agree.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

2 years

@MirrorDarren @DailyMirror I am brown skinned and l don't need you to fight for me. I can fight my own battles alongside colleagues. No saviours - white or any colour- needed thank you.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Taking the knee is a gesture & when a single interpretation is presented as THE only way of being against racism, it is politicised. @OfficialTM_3 is free to voice his opinion, but we should expect a better, more impartial response from the press. @DontDivideUsNow

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

1 year

Maybe it’s DDU’s beliefs about people & race the 7 cancellers didn’t like/felt scared of?

Education Conference Organisers Cancel Anti-Racism Ideology Critic to ‘Prioritise Safety’

Organisers took the side of protesters who that the director of Don’t Divide Us, who was due to discuss “indoctrination” in schools, made them feel “unsafe.”

www.theepochtimes.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Tonight LibDem. said democracy=protecting minorities. Wrong. This can be kindness, solidarity or patronisation, depending on context. Democracy =when power to authorise govt. acts lies with the demos. Simple but v.hard for some to grasp. Alas @brexitparty_uk does!

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Wrote this on why decolonising is not good for identity formation or education:

The danger of ‘decolonising’ education

A curriculum should enrich and challenge young minds, not indoctrinate them.

www.spiked-online.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Being colour blind = metaphor for thinking no individual should be treated differently-morally & legally. Doesn't deny cultural specificity. How is this 'covert white supremacy' ? Come BL -you can do better! @DontDivideUsNow

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Moving beyond words:

Jimi and the virtue of courage

Why Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole’s act of bravery has touched the nation.

www.spiked-online.com

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@ASCphiled

4 years

Very glad @educationgovuk have issued this reminder. 'White privilege' is a contested concept of social/political theory: not a self evident social fact. Schools shouldn't teach it & other similar ideas as if they were.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Canvassing with Brexit Party neighbour. Many are fed up with a Labour Party that ignores their vote, and with a Labour majority council that has done little to improve public services.

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@ASCphiled

5 years

Just watched it, you were great Ben. Amazing, Kamm the self-professed anti-racist do-gooder, admitted he's not interested in ethnicity of candidates.Kamm will do more to inflame racist ideas because he slurs anyone who doesn't tow his line as racist.

Ben Habib

@benhabib6

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I am on Sky News at 3:30 pm with @OliverKamm debating his accusation that @brexitparty_uk is a racist organisation. I look forward to it.

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@ASCphiled

1 year

@Rethinking_Ed Thank you, but if you knew anything about my work you would know that my personal inconvenience is negligible compared to the important educational & democratic principles at stake here.

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@ASCphiled

5 years

See Labour are showing off their commitment to democracy again with bill to hand control of agenda to parliament to avoid no deal. @brexitparty_uk is only place to be for leavers.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

“We believe that moving the statue can be a symbol of progress in our commitment to build & sustain an inclusive & equitable society,” Or it could be a symbol of moral & intellectual cowardice. Does she really think removing statues will solve inequalities?

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@ASCphiled

5 years

Don't know how I forgot to post this. Three very happy 'knuckle-draggers' in Parliament Square on Friday. After an excellent discussion on Ofsted's new inspection framework and chatting about music & aesthetics while walking down Charing Cross Road. A pretty good Friday night!

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Well said @jowilliams293 Now we need politicians with the courage to calmly say no to claims of thus race industry & ensure its own rules re. impartiality in education are upheld.

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@ASCphiled

2 years

An education based on these principles, or the miserablist, reductive 'active anti-racist' material promoted by EDI/race experts? Know which l prefer.

Opinion | Don’t Cancel the Classics, Broaden and Diversify Them

Black Americans in past centuries fought for the right to be educated in Western civilization.

www.wsj.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Well-said. Most fans, contrary to Gary Southgate's view, do understand perfectly well what footballers taking the knee on the pitch means @DontDivideUsNow

Damian Counsell

@DamCou

3 years

Check out the quote-tweets of McDonnell's (disgraceful) tweet to see how well this is going. The media/sport establishment has underestimated how much fans—not racist ones—resent the politics that are been forced on them here. It'll get a shock if it makes this a battleground.

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@ASCphiled

5 years

Jonathan Sacks on Newsnight saying that democratic faith means accepting the result even if you don't agree with the electorate 's decision. 'Democracy is one of the most profound political principles . . . if we lose it we lose everything'. Vote for The Brexit Party tomorrow.

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@ASCphiled

4 years

Likes of @DavidLammy & their new-found love of democracy clearly doesn't extend to any show of solidarity with French people:

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@ASCphiled

1 year

Very glad to have had the chance to talk about the divisive and anti-educational effects of EDI in schools with @andrewdoyle_com yesterday...

Andrew Doyle

@andrewdoyle_com

1 year

Campaign group @DontDivideUsNow has produced a report outlining how racial division in schools is taking place under the guise of “anti-racism”. @ASCphiled joined me yesterday to discuss this…

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@ASCphiled

1 year

Delighted to be invited to @GBNEWS @andrewdoyle_com Free Speech Nation:

GB News

@GBNEWS

1 year

'We have this ideology that is really wanting to ensure we see race first and foremost...' Director of Don't Divide Us, Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert, says their forthcoming report investigates what ideology issues third-party providers are offering educators.

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@ASCphiled

3 years

Love this - and @Furedibyte is right about Janis Joplin lyrics (although I still love the song!): @DontDivideUsNow

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@ASCphiled

4 years

Great article Calvin, excellent point re. racialalized distribution of staff.

Fr Calvin Robinson

@calvinrobinson

4 years

The BBC was wrong to make an apology for responsibly reporting details of a horrendous racist crime. Instead, it should be apologising for the hypocrisy of encouraging gang culture when it suits its own purposes. #DefundTheBBC

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@ASCphiled

4 years

Absolutely, increasingly think thinking in terms of Labour/Conservative hinders more than helps in trying to conceive, and articulate, new politics many know we need.

Claire Fox

@Fox_Claire

4 years

This really is a fine, important speech. @DesmondSwayne may be a conservative MP but the passionate warning about devastation of unemployment should make silent Labour MPs & TUs blush; his response to attacks on freedoms should shame compliant Liberals. Time for more to speak up

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"I really want to stress that the dividing line in this race is not tax cuts, it's judgment" Kemi Badenoch 12th July 2022. Agree.Judgement is about how, as well as what, you do. Current main parties show no judgment, little love of democracy & are encouraging despair & cynicism.

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@ASCphiled

3 years

Monty Don on Radio 4 just great on the Salford Uni trigger warnings for Jane Eyre: 'They're making it all about the students who are the least important thing in this. The important thing is the literature' Think the profs could take a leaf from his book!

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@ASCphiled

5 years

@BrexitAlex @BelindadeLucy Blimey - where are the rest of the MEPs?? Well-said @BelindadeLucy .

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@ASCphiled

4 years

In the wake of Samuel Paty's brutal murder, it would be good to see schools include a lesson/assembly on the importance of tolerating a diversity of beliefs, opinions and freedom of speech. Without these things what is the point of education?

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@ASCphiled

2 years

To the average man and woman . . .being anti-racist means treating everyone the same irrespective of skin colour. To the modern, self-anointed high priests..of 'anti-racism’.. being 'anti-racist' does not mean that at all.' Agree! @CJordanjb @Daily_Express

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@ASCphiled

2 years

Enjoyed this, thank you @JuliaHB1 . If you believe universal approaches to addressing pockets of discrimination where they exist, do consider supporting our work: @DontDivideUsNow

Talk

@TalkTV

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert from Don't Divide Us unpicks Labour MP Rupa Huq's "corrosive" comments that Kwasi Kwarteng is "superficially black." "If we say this is okay, we are heading down a very dangerous path." @JuliaHB1 | @ASCphiled

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@ASCphiled

4 years

If itrue that large % of infections are in care homes & poorly protected work places, then surely govt must a) let children & students get on with life & education, and b) put best info to date on where people are getting infected in public domain? Not just scare quote numbers.

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@ASCphiled

4 years

Good counter from @rakibehsan to the 'wicked witch' v 'poor black woman' options.

Don’t let Harry off the hook

The misfit prince is at least as irritating as Meghan, and has been bristling against his duties for years.

www.spiked-online.com

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@ASCphiled

3 years

On the cultural context that shaped the Colston verdict:

Brilliant exposé of the moral wasteland of Britain's culture wars

RIDDLE me this: when is criminal damage not criminal? According to the judge, defence lawyers and jury in the trial of the Colston Four the answer is when the trial judges history itself.

www.express.co.uk

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@ASCphiled

5 years

Great piece from @benhabib6 , fellow London @brexitparty_uk candidate - makes string business & democratic case for leaving:

Voters are punishing the political class for their gross incompetence over Brexit

In the lead up to the EU Referendum in 2016, the Conservative government, at the behest of Prime Minister David Cameron, circulated a twenty-three-page leaflet to every household in the UK.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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This would be good news for education, and more widely. A minister with principles and courage:

Kemi Badenoch: rising Tory star poised to replace Gavin Williamson as education secretary

Boris Johnson is planning to replace Gavin Williamson as education secretary with a rising Tory star who is popular in the party for attacking “woke campaigners

www.thetimes.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Really good to read this open letter from Oxford students showing solidarity and that they value free speech:

Letter for the University of Oxford (sent to Oxford's VC on 12 November 2020)

Open Letter from Oxford students, teachers, scholars, staff members, and alumni to VC Louise Richardson On 16 October 2020, Samuel Paty, a 47-year old middle-school teacher, was killed and beheaded...

docs.google.com

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@ASCphiled

1 year

'Andoh’s comments were branded “nonsense” by the director of Don’t Divide Us, the racial tolerance campaign group,' Silly nonsense needs to called out and derided as such. Whiteness isn't a problem, re-racialising society is:

'Terribly white' Coronation balcony comment from Bridgerton star tops Ofcom complaints of the year

Adjoa Andoh’s remarks spark more than 4,000 complaints from ITV viewers

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

Whiteness whiteness everywhere and not a drop of sense:

GCSE English exams ‘uphold whiteness’, teachers told in national body’s seminar

Teachers urged to use concepts of white privilege, white fragility and whiteness studies in lessons and 'embed' British Empire teaching

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

@Fox_Claire There is a Jane Austen Society in Kolkata, through which I came across this interesting article from the BBC (so not all lost hopefully!) What a pity the Jane Austen museum in her own country feel the need to overlay her legacy with mean-minded ideology:

What Jane Austen can teach us about resilience

Her novels may be mischaracterised as romantic escapism, but at their core, they have a lot to say about perseverance – and it makes them perfect reading for now, writes Heloise Wood.

www.bbc.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

5 years

Brexit has its risks. But staying in the EU is now unthinkable

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Delighted to have this in @SchoolsWeek

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

@JohnOrnaO Open and honest? Really? Do you think most people don't know that previous owners of grand buildings may have traded in slaves? Don't be so patronising. I quite like to enjoy the gardens & architecture when l visit NT places. If l want a sermon on piety/impiety, l'd go to church.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Names of slave-trading figures haven't prevented Britain's current values being ones that welcomed Malala Yousafzai to recover and study here. School leadership, get a grip!

State school urged to change name over founder's slave trade links

Nearly 600 people have signed a petition calling on the James Gillespie High School in Edinburgh to change its name because its founder had links to the slave trade.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

3 years

The generosity of @PaulEmbery 's comments, not to mention his courage in speaking out in favour of Brexit in 2019, are qualities hard to find in so many in leadership positions today.

Ike Ijeh

@ikeijeh

3 years

A superb result. Employers have the right to disagree with your political beliefs but not to dismiss you for them. Too many still mourning the alleged loss of their EU 'freedoms' are all too happy to deny far more fundamental democratic freedoms to those with whom they disagree.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

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Clearly there's money to be had in perpetuating mythic version of 'enduring racism in society/schools'. It also assumes majority need to be 'educated'/indoctrinated into accepting political falsehood. Who benefits? Hmm...🤔 @DontDivideUsNow

Brighton & Hove City Council

@BrightonHoveCC

3 years

We're recruiting for an Education Adviser for Anti-Racist Education Settings to help us actively identify and oppose racism. 💷 £50,541 - £54,598 🕔 Fixed term, part time 📅 Apply by 27 June ➡️ Find out more and apply #jobs #brighton #hove @PSHEedBH

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@ASCphiled

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"The ‘new’ GCSE curriculum is Anglocentric & epistemically violent: it uses knowledge as a weapon" says educator who wants all books to be framed through race/racism. Can't schools just teach good literature i.e. those rich enough to prompt imagination?

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

2 years

@Fox_Claire @carolinefff @SVPhillimore @bindelj @andrewdoyle_com Totally agree @Fox_Claire . Clearer by the day that some councils think they have a moral imperative to go beyond existing legislation without having to do the work of persuading g public.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

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Every English teacher should read this. I have hugely happy memories of teechong Pippi Longstocking and Ode to Autumn to mainly Bengali primary pupils in supplementary classes. They had more imagination than the mean- spirited decolonizers.

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@ASCphiled

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Common response from people in Labour held East Ham is 'They (the council) have taken away our car parks. They've taken away our market & now I might as well not vote as they (the govt) won't listen.' Local & national link is intuitively understood. Time to vote @brexitparty_uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

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By end of East Ham hustings last night, it was clear that Lab &Lib Dem see our vote to leave EU as a sign of ignorance. Conservative didn't turn up. Vote @brexitparty_uk time to #givechangeachance

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@ASCphiled

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On my way to launch this hugely impressive collection of essays. And very honoured to have had the chance to contribute. Exceedingly well done @Fox_Claire & @brexithenrik !

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Great article from @buffsoldier_96 , blessed relief to read something more historically specific:

Britain’s race pain is not the same as America’s

A like-for-like equation is potentially inflammatory, crassly propagandistic — and untrue

unherd.com

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

2 years

Well-said @rakibehsan , Advisory Council member of @DontDivideUsNow among many other things!

GB News

@GBNEWS

2 years

'Britain is one of the most successful examples of a multi-racial democracy in the modern world.' Writer Dr Rakib Ehsan reacts to talk show host Trevor Noah being condemned after claiming Rishi Sunak received racist backlash once becoming Prime Minister.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

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5 years

How has a belief in democracy come to be seen as extremism? Great article by James Glancy;

Britain Is In Dire Need Of Political Renewal – So I'm Standing For The Brexit Party

Whether you vote Leave or Remain, if you believe in democracy, only by voting for the Brexit Party can we remind MPs that they are accountable to the people

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Trying to explain educational differentials with 'pedagogy rooted in colonialism' over- simplifies, patronises and further racialises. As an epistemological claim, it should be exposed for the cant it is, not accepted in bad faith.

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

Too many of our young folk are suffering from unwarranted Covid protection measures implemented by university bureaucracies that are losing sight of their primary public duty:

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Alka Sehgal Cuthbert

@ASCphiled

4 years

This is historically illiterate & ethically miserable.I want to celebrate Sloane for his adventurous spirit & philanthropy, not for any real or alleged relation to slavery.We can hold more than 1 idea at a time!

The removal of a bust of the British Museum’s founder is no trivial issue. It is a step towards the...

The wrong-headed decision to give the activists a victory by ‘toppling’ Hans Sloane will not end their campaign, but boost it. These people will not stop until they have destroyed the very principles...

www.rt.com

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